Courtney Bourgoin is a press secretary for Sierra Club's Our Wild America campaign. She works and lives in Chicago, IL.
WASHINGTON, DC— Today, the House of Representatives will vote on the Protecting America’s Wilderness bill that includes the Colorado Wilderness Act— legislation that would safeguard more than 740,000…
Washington, DC-- Today, the U.S. House of Representatives will vote on the Protecting America’s Wilderness Act (PAW)-- a bill to protect more than 1.3 million acres of Wilderness and thousands…
Washington, DC-- Today, the U.S. House of Representatives will vote on the Protecting America’s Wilderness Act (PAW)-- a bill to protect more than 1.4 million acres of wilderness, conserve critical…
Salt Lake City, UT-- Today, the Trump administration’s Interior Department released final resource management plans for the reduced Bears Ears National Monument and Grand Staircase-Escalante National…
Washington, DC-- Today, the House of Representatives hosted a hearing on the Boundary Waters Wilderness Protection and Pollution Prevention Act-- a bill that would permanently protect more than 200,…
Jackson, WY — A conservation coalition today filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) to challenge the agency’s weak new plan to phase down elk feeding on the Jackson Hole…
NEW: The Trump administration is currently carrying out miles of new border wall construction-- a result of the President’s national emergency declaration that allowed him to raid military funds for…
Washington, DC-- Tomorrow (1/29), the House Natural Resources Committee will hold a hearing on several wildlife conservation bills-- including the Protect America’s Wildlife and Fish in Need of…
Reno, NV-- Today, Nevada Sen. Cortez Masto introduced a bill to eliminate the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) practice of leasing low and no potential public lands for oil and gas drilling. The…
Washington, DC-- Today,the Washington Post reported that Trump will “divert an additional $7.2 billion in Pentagon funding for border wall construction this year, five times what Congress authorized…